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on Thursday, aged 69 years." Alas that, as I write, 

 Anderson, Agassiz, and Penikese, exist save as a 

 memory yet, as such, they will last, with me at 

 least, forever and again forever\ 



As in the establishment of Penikese was recognized 

 a new departure in scientific education, to provide 

 for its future, and that the public might at once fully 

 understand its proposed scope, Professor Agassiz 

 advertised: 



"The applications for admission to the ANDERSON 

 SCHOOL OF NATURAL HISTORY are so numerous that it 

 has been decided that the successful pupils of a pre- 

 ceeding year should have the first claim to admission 

 the following season; next, the principals and pro- 

 fessors of colleges and of high and normal schools; 

 next, teachers in other public institutions; and, finally, 

 teachers in private schools. Beginners cannot be ad- 

 mitted until after the applications of these several 

 classes of pupils have been met. You are therefore 

 requested to send me your claims to admission, be- 

 fore an answer to your application can be given. 



Respectfully Yours, 



L. AGASSIZ." 



But a second year with Professor Agassiz was a 

 happiness too great for mortal realization, so he was 

 taken from us "not lost, but gone before;" we can 

 only follow in his footsteps and search after him. We 

 will follow Nature to her beginning, but we will find 

 him again. The same patient, loving father, friend, 

 and brother, shall again clasp our hand and direct 

 our steps from Nature to Nature's God. 



The second year, and the last, of Penikese, was 

 conducted by Professor Alexander Agassiz, Professor 

 Agassiz's son who, after the death of his father, as- 

 sumed the responsibilities which the latter had left. 

 This term was conducted on very nearly the same 

 principle as the first had been. The "course" re- 

 mained unchanged, in the main, and nearly all the 

 old instructors and pupils returned. How hard we 



